🚨NEW🚨 We are launching a new Undergraduate Network for IR & Foreign Policy with British Foreign Policy Group for undergrads across the UK to learn, engage, and network in ways that go beyond the classroom 🌟 First meeting on Weds 👉 https://ow.ly/b3jw50XajTR Evie Aspinall @julietdryden.bsky.social

Not gonna be a general in the US military.

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

Author copies for Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today! If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

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New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget. Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide. Report: osf.io/e8rnc a 🧵

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

What happens to armed organizations when states tolerate their activities? And what do rank-and-file militants, recruits, and supporters actually want out of armed movements? Very excited to announce that my new book is out with @oxfordacademic.bsky.social !! (Thread below.)

this exists it is called thinking

Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail is now available for pre-order from @mitpress.bsky.social! The thread below describes the premise of the volume and its contributors. mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780262...

Second deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the first -nonthreatening target in an area the US military operates freely -no legal authority, nor attempt to cite statute -no evidence presented -no individuals identified -no articulated strategic goal, nor explanation how to achieve it

Out now, folks!

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

Proud to do my part

This is a lovely story. I once almost missed a wedding because I'd got the time wrong - which was particularly unfortunate as I was the organist. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Don't forget to add this white text to all your publications.

Just re-read this piece by Nils Gilman and I recommend it highly: theallamerican.substack.com/p/the-resear...

Fascinating. I wonder who is to blame for this.

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.

"You do not need to read books. Just feed the PDFs to ChatGPT and let it spit out a summary that you can read in class if needed, or a brief analysis or response to a post to an online discussion where your bot will talk to your classmates’ bots." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

Given they're always at my local café, nice to have a chance to say "nice one, lads" to Isaac and Ross this morning as I was tapping away on the laptop...

this is how I learned that Melvyn was stepping down

The "anti-war President"

First of all, again, Don't. Stenographically. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Second, the actual headline should be that this is a massive violation of international law. What is journalism, anyway?

"It is also symptomatic of a wider chill on free speech in Europe, where the selective deployment of laws over hate speech, offense, and incitement has turned the police into the enforcers of progressive values and given them enormous discretionary power." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We are pleased to announce that the COMEC AGM and Conference will take place for 2025 on 28/29 November at the Craiglockhart Campus of Edinburgh Napier University.

I suspect that part of the reason for this is more uniform cue-giving from across the ideological spectrum: the main party of the center left (and current ruling party) has joined the parties of the right in frequently talking about what a 'problem' immigration is. (1/2)

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

It illustrates the present moment so well

“Aligning history with the president’s vision” is a hell of an admission. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Dundee University has informed staff this morning that they are deferring implementation of the national pay award increase - just 1.4%, a real-terms pay cut to begin with, so we will be even worse-off. Confirmed that it will not be backdated when they finally implement it, either.

Federalizing the police in DC and deploying the National Guard for no reason...I worried this piece was too strong back in June. But we are really living in a personalist dictatorship in both domestic and foreign policy. @foreignaffairs.com 1/ www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

Risa is spot on (as usual!)

Sending the Guard to police DC citizens politicizes the military--just like using it and active duty troops against protesters and in immigration and counter cartel missions does. This is no accident. It's part of a broader effort to transform the military into a partisan force.

Someone should tell J D Vance about this abhorrent restriction on free speech going on in the UK!

What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest

“What is often left out of discussions of Girard is the most challenging part of his theory, about how we break the cycle. Here he turns to one of the firmest messages of the gospels: the injunction to love our enemies.” www.ft.com/content/66f7...

at the risk of a hot take, I believe it is per se a good thing to gather quantitative data, as accurately as possible, to help the public better understand the contours of the world and society we live in

if anyone is interested in putting together a panel on decline/declining powers/power transitions for this conference, lmk!

"We make brand transformation an inclusive experience of engagement that finds authentic purpose and key points of differentiation that can drive momentum at scale and pace." Yes. These are words. Very words. Certainly very much words here.

Must read from Paul Pillar via @quincyinst.bsky.social. responsiblestatecraft.org/hamas-israel...

The beatings will continue until morale improves

I took a class called "theory in the flesh" offered in the dance dept on feminist theory. Great class. Wrote a paper on hiphop. One of the reasons I love that American students can explore topics outside their major, unlike here in the UK.